I think they explained at the time that it had to be the front because ads on the back didn't always have the appropriate space, Baab - although in later years it was sometimes placed on the back, especially if it was a double page illo on the cover.

I was pumped when it was announced that Kirby was coming back to Cap, even though I really enjoyed Engelhart's run (and liked Frank Robbins art on Cap's run. Some of my favorites were actually inked by Kirby's inker, D. Bruce Berry!).

While Kirby's Cap didn't live up to my expectations, there were some great ideas in these stories. Kirby's ambitious bi-centennial story was interesting, although by the end he lost focus. I thought the beginning of the Night People story was offbeat, but didn't care for the wind-up. I liked the fact that Kirby kept the Falcon, making him a strong character and an equal to Cap (although Redwing was nowhere to be found). I found it odd that Kirby never even had a cameo of Nick Fury (or any of his Shield crew) even though Shield was part of his storylines. Instead he had other "officials" standing in for them. These were choices Kirby made that didn't make a lot of sense and alienated readers. Still, there was some nice work withing these pages, and Frank Giacoia did a nice job on issues he inked (although I would have liked to see Sinnott ink an issue or two. Even Joe wondered why he wasn't assigned one of Kirby's books.

You're right, Nick - it was strange that Fury never appeared. It was the same in The Eternals - when the Hulk appeared, it was a cosmic-powered android, not the real one. I'd have liked to see Colletta ink an issue or two, as well as Sinnott.

STUDIO 77

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artiston various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artistandspot illustratoron pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

ForMARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as arestoration artistfor MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

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